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Bite Size C# – Eventing\Observer Pattern

Let us have a look at the eventing or observer pattern. This pattern is based on the raising and handling of events. Events are a mechanism for the communication between object that allow us to build loosely coupled applications that can be easily extended.

At a high level this pattern functions as follows:
An object (known as the Publisher) defines a contract (delegate method) to which other objects (knows as Subscribers) must comply in order to be notified of a certain condition occurring in the Publisher object. This is achieved as follows, when a certain state is reached in the Publisher object an event will be raised, which will then trigger all the Subscriber objects to react by executing the method defined within the individual Subscriber objects that matches the delegate method as defined in the Publisher.

Now let us have a look at an example:

First let us create the Publisher, here we have to do three things:
1. Define a delegate which will act as the contract between the Publisher and Subscribers.
2. Define an event based on the delegate.
3. Raise the defined event.